But sought to pleasure eache at neede, both[1108] neare and farre:
More proane to sacred peace I was, then bent to [broyles of] warre.
5.
What hearte [is then] so harde but will for pity bleede,
To heare a [giltlesse] Prince which meant to each so well.
Should haue such cause to liue in feare and dreede
Of sworde, of bane, of force, or poyson fell,
Not daring Emprour nere his brother dwell,
Whom [both the] Romaynes lou’d, and straungers honourde still,
In peace moe bruntes abydes at home, then erste abroade of ill.[1109]